Re: [9fans] bootalphapc

[Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>]

Did you use the out-of-the-box bootalphapc, or some other method to get it going?  Also, is your filesystem running locally on the PWS, or from another machine via network?  How much trouble was all this?  Thanks!

-Ben

>>> andrey mirtchovski<mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> 7/6/2004 9:13:41 AM >>>
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

> 
> Fixing problems like that is not usually too difficult,
> by looking at the *BSD code as has been mentioned.
> Jean Mehat did it recently for one
> of the Alpha DECstations.
> 

my alpha is up officially, though there's still some IRQ weirdness to be
ironed out. thanks to Jean Mehat for the sources.

it is an Alpha Personal Workstation 500au:

alpha% cat '#P/cputype'
21164A 500
alpha% pci
0.12.0:	03.00.00 1011/000d 248 0:90000008 4194304
0.3.0:	02.00.00 1011/0019 240 0:00009001 128 1:80159000 128
0.7.0:	06.01.00 1080/c693 240
0.7.1:	01.01.80 1080/c693 222 0:000001f1 16 1:000003f5 16 4:000090a1 16
0.7.2:	01.01.00 1080/c693 223 0:00000171 16 1:00000375 16 4:80140000 65536
0.7.3:	0c.03.10 1080/c693 218 0:80158000 4096
alpha% 

andrey